Foster care is a situation where children are treated and cared for as a member of a family but they are legally a ward of the state and may retain a connection with their birth parents. Adoption means that you take on the name of and become a legal child to the people that have adopted you.
A foster child is temporarily in the custody of an individual, couple, or group home, but the legal guardian for that child is still the state.
An adopted child is permanently in the custody of an individual or couple, who are the child's permanent legal guardian(s)
Foster children are cared for by a foster parent, this "parent" has custody of this child.
With Adoption a child is handed over to a new set of parents who have gone through all the necessary things to become the parent of that child.
This child will not be taken away from them and has a steady, stable home that most foster homes can not provide fully.
adoptive parents is like a new mother and father is are adopted don't feel that your adoptive parents are taking over your birth parents.... foster carers get a lot of money to look after you but adoptive parents only get the money normal parents have e.g, child benefits hope this information helps you xx
When you have a child in foster care, the state is still the legal guardian and the child may still have contact with the biological family. Foster parents have no legal rights to the child, they are just care givers. When a child is adopted, they take on the name of the parents and become equal to any biological children. I have three children, two adopted and one biological. My adopted children are just as much my children as my one biological children. Our names are on their birth certificates as their parents, etc. Their birth parents have NO RIGHTS to them at all. Hope this helps!
Foster parents get a stipend or board rate for the foster children; they may also get funding for specific things, like a clothing allowance.
Adoptive parents may qualify for an adoption subsidy; generally these are only available for special needs children
Adoption - 2002 Foster Care 1-21 was released on: USA: 21 December 2003
If you are up for adoption and is a teen the choice is yours. You will then remain in foster care.
Keeping the child or foster care.
Foster care and adoption is not the same thing. Yes, you get to meet your adoptive parents before they adopt you. That is not always the case with foster care since if a child is abused for instance the foster families are ready to receive you in the middle of the night sometimes, when it's needed. Foster care is not meant to be permanent like adoption.
If you buy a puppy, then it is from a store. Adoption is taking it from a family that can't take care of it or doesn't want it.
They aren't the same. Adoption is becoming the legal parent and foster care means the state is the childs guardian. The state makes all important decisions regarding the child and the foster parents have no rights, the state can just come in and move the child to another foster home for no reason. Adopted children are yours forever.
There is no statistical information collected on the number of children becoming available for adoption in the US. The number would include those in private adoption, kinship placements, children moving from foster care to foster adoption, as well as readoptions resulting from disruption.
One can learn more about foster care placement by visiting the website Adopt Us Kids, which is a website that focuses on informing people about the adoption process.
If the child is being abused or parents die for example. Also if a child is being put up for adoption they can stay in foster care until they have found parents.
If you have already found a person to adopt a baby then no the baby doesn't have to go through foster care.Yes, You Are Correct. Until the Process it Finished, and the Legal Documents have Been Checked and Approved, the Child Will Be In Foster Care ^^
If you are adopted the parents care for you just like any other family. There is no adoption check. No one is being paid in order to adopt someone. If you were in foster care and turn 18 you will get a check and be out on your own.
If the child's parents are no longer in the legal picture, then there are steps to follow in order to adopt the child. Many foster children are in foster care while their parents get education, jobs and/or get off of drugs, so the child or children are not available for adoption.